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DESCRIPTION:Mar 26 - Apr 19\, 2026\nLa Bayadère belongs to that stable of 
 antique ballets whose convoluted plots and rusty worldviews combine with p
 ockets of sublime choreography. What distinguishes this 19th-century Orien
 talist melodrama is how deep those pockets run and how especially offensiv
 e—colonialist\, racist\, the wrong kind of escapist—the story is. But 
 artistic directors who even recognize the problem tend to merely blur the 
 picture rather than change it. Not the Dutch National Ballet’s team of c
 horeographers and researchers. “The new production\,” the company asse
 rts\, “is based on fact rather than fiction.” Facts close to home\, no
  less. The setting is Fort Sadras\, in southeast India\, which the Dutch e
 stablished in the 1600s. The characters\, researcher Priya Srinivasan expl
 ains\, “are based on real people from the time of the Dutch East India C
 ompany\,” before the British dominated. The libretto is thus thoroughly 
 revised. And the choreography? Associate artistic director Rachel Beaujean
 \, who successfully revised the Dutch National Ballet’s Paquita and Raym
 onda\, admits that the wicked Dutch Colonel who replaces the erstwhile Raj
 ah will need new steps. But Petipa’s undying “Kingdom of the Shades”
  remains untouched.
LOCATION:Dutch National Opera & Ballet\, Amstel 3 1011 PN\, Amsterdam\, The
  Netherlands
SUMMARY:Dutch National Ballet: La Bayadère
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